Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hind legs off an English donkey, it is the donkey's fault. The trouble, we think, is not that Columbus went too far . . . On the contrary, it is that we permit this influence, however well-intentioned, to encroach too much upon the English preserve. It is a sad reflection on our initiative. If the solution is to abandon the leisurely mediocrity which is still our stigma, then it is high time we got down...
...legends make the rounds this time of year. The first, the story of Sidney Pumpton requires little comment, but the second, the sad tale of George Everett, provides an important message for struggling undergraduates...
...lived. The patron saint of the Irish is St. Patrick; of the English, St. George. The patron saint of Americans is St. Vitus . . . The American people are so tense and keyed up that it is impossible even to put them to sleep with a sermon . . . That's a sad situation." -Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, pastor of Manhattan's Marble Collegiate Church...
...Sad Episode. Savonarola was in the tradition of the great Medieval ascetics, an anachronistic protest against Renaissance humanism. Discussing the newly revived ancient classics, he wrote: "The only good thing which we owe to Plato and Aristotle is that they brought forward many arguments which we can use against the heretics. Yet they and other philosophers are now in hell." No Protestant, he remained to the last rigidly faithful to Roman Catholic doctrine...
Despite this orthodoxy, the Dominicans have had little luck getting him canonized as a saint of the church, although they have been trying for two centuries. These days, said a Vatican 'spokesman last week, "The case of Savonarola is considered by the church a sad episode . . . Saints are to be admired and imitated by the faithful for possession of the seven virtues-faith, hope, charity, justice, fortitude, prudence and temperance. Savonarola can hardly be said to have possessed the last...